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09 August 2008

You can venture 45 feet up my driveway and then scamper like a mountain goat 15 feet down a steep ravine to steal my sign, but you CAN'T STEAL MY VOTE OR SILENCE MY VOICE!

I know that it isn't very kind of me, but right now I really hope that you ran into the poison ivy! May that 3-week miserably itchy rash remind you that what you did was wrong in a country where one of our basic rights is FREE SPEECH. Perhaps you've forgotten that just like some of the present leaders in Washington. I'll defend your right to your political positions, but you do not have a right to trespass on my property in an attempt to silence mine.

BTW -- just like the previous 4 signs that have been taken from my property -- I'll replace it. Each time I do I make another campaign contribution. So I guess I shouldn't call you an asshole; instead, I should call you a campaign contribution stimulus package!

Smithereens - I can't believe that someone would do this either. Not sure what a complaint would do, but I love the survellience camera idea. I wish I knew how to put a motion activated spotlight on the sign, (without it turning on everytime a bird or squirrel happens by).

Ted -- your comment really made me laugh. I LOVE! the idea of something sticky on the sign, although in reality whatever substance I could use would probably attract all sorts of stuff from the woods to stick to it. I have visions of some poor little chipmuck or wren sticking to it and hollaring. I'll have to find something eco-friendly and only sticky for Republicans -- err, I mean, sign stealers.

Emily -- glad you share my humor. Once I thought of it as a campaing contribution stimulus, I did start laughing. Still, I'm still pissed that someone would venture so far onto our property to do this. Not only was it in a place not easily accessible (but very visible to a high traffic street), there wouldn't have been an easy escape if they had been caught in the act.

Lily -- I did think of that. But, I live in one of the most gerrymandered Republican districts in my state. Or maybe that is the district across the street...or the one that begins one block over. You get the point. And they are all REPUBLICANS. My husband and I joke that if one of us didn't make it to the polls there would only be 50% democratic turnout in our precinct. Still, lots of people contributing to Obama in my neck of the woods if you look at the maps on those public info campaign contribution sites.

Well said!!! Actually, it reminds me of people who buy books just to burn them. Or those who steal them from libraries because they disagree with the books. Then taxpayer money (including, to some degree, money paid by the person who stole the book) is used to repurchase the book, thus raising sales and giving more money to the author and publisher of said book. The irony, of course, is lost on such people.